Dispose of Magazines
We're having a bit of clear out and have a couple of years of Magazines - MMM, What Motorhome and C&MC - to get rid of.
What do you do with Magazines you have read and probably won't read or need again?
Do you just dispose of them to the tip, hoard them, try and give them away, make firelighters out of them, advertise them locally - seems a shame to just throw them away but do you manage to get rid without throwing them out?
I would prefer to give them to someone who wanted them, I'm not looking to sell them, but not sure what to do with them.
Any helpful advice?
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MMM is passed on to other touring friends or neighbours. Club mag is either recycled, or discreetly dumped at the Docs surgery. Some patients are so stressed they will read anything......
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The recycling lorry comes alternate Thursdays. Takes bottles too.
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I never though I would say it, but the paper quality is just slightly too good for using as stove kindling, just won't burn as well as newspaper!
(Just Saturday edition of Yorkshire Post for those wondering, good magazine and paper fires up stove for a week!)
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Might make good hamster/rabbit/guinea pig bedding if shredded? Or packing around delicate items sent through the post?
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I must admit that I don't keep either of the Clubs offering very long. I do tend to store MMM but will eventually have to throw out for recycling. I might removed the site reports and overseas trips and keep them for future reference.
David
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I'm still looking at a recent Club Mag, Tail Lights had a photo of a beautifully painted micro motor caravan. It's the first time I've seen an Autohomes Bambi in a delicate shade of PINK with curlique decoration !!
Had the standard beige beast for seven years and, I've said this before on here, I could see me buying one now if only they were still made.
Sorry, back to the subject
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If you have a four wheel trailer caravan with wheel locks and a motor mover, the glossy magazines can make fitting the locks easy.
Get the caravan where you want it and then run it back, or forward, just enough to put a magazine under the tyre of the non-mover wheel. Then shift the caravan back into place and line up the lock on that wheel.
There is only a slim chance the other wheel will then align for its lock, so just move the caravan slightly back or forward as required to line up. The already locked wheel will slide on the pages of the magazine.
Just lift it and put in the recycle when you leave - there will be another along next month!
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There is the CC Magazine and the C&CC Magazine if you want to move about a lot.
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I always leave any club magazine in the information room, indeed any magazine we've have read in the van during out time away. Many sites have a good stock of a lot of magazines, like reading the CCC ones .
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I tend to keep the past twelve months copies so when it builds up to two years worth, I recycle the earliest years ones. Not sure why as I hardly ever refer back.
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Both club's magazines recycled as soon as latest arrives. More specialist mags like MMM I offer one or two years worth of bundles on Freecycle. If no takers they are recycled.
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Stuff I definitely want to keep is cut out and stored in an indexed lever arch file. Stuff i might want to look at again is scanned into my PC. (Most printers these days double as a scanner so its easy although time consuming to scan in documents).
Hard copy is then given to a friend or recycled.
Easy !!
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Our caravanning friends are already CMC members, so receive their own mags. We simply recycle the mag when we have finished with it. Don't know if it's a sign of the times, but it now seems that we ditch it well before the next mag arrives.
I can get all the info I need on line so, if there was a financial choice to take or leave it, I would cancel it.
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Well, I don't think you've missed anything - that's for sure. One thing I find boring is the continuing catch-phrasing of article titles.
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+1
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I do open and flick through but finish with it well under the hour. As expressed earlier if there was an option not to receive, I wouldn't miss it. I do wish the handbook was published annually though as their are loads of CL changes - but there probably aren't enough advertisers in there to justify it! We're only members after all.
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Just an update on your helpful replies - a Motorhoming friend of ours has taken the whole pile of mags and will read them over Christmas and dispose of them in an environmentally friendly manner if he can't find anyone else to pass them on to.
Again, thanks.
Happy Christmas and New Year to you all.
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I donate mine to the charity table in my local Co-oP,may get others interested in caravaning/motorhoming !!
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For those folk who don't read or want the magazine, you can opt to not have it delivered. By signing in and going to 'My profile' and then into 'My communication preferences'. On that page there is a box to click to not receive the magazine.
Did this about two years ago and not had one since.
Mike
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